majorityVote: Majority vote

In mclust: Gaussian Mixture Modelling for Model-Based Clustering, Classification, and Density Estimation

Majority vote

Description

A function to compute the majority vote (some would say plurality) label in a vector of labels, breaking ties at random.

Usage

majorityVote(x)

Arguments

x	A vector of values, either numerical or not.

Value

A list with the following components:

table	A table of votes for each unique value of x.
ind	An integer specifying which unique value of x corresponds to the majority vote.
majority	A string specifying the majority vote label.

Author(s)

L. Scrucca

Examples

x <- c("A", "C", "A", "B", "C", "B", "A")
majorityVote(x)

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